Best Antivirus?

Originally Posted by Ace666

Yeah you see you don't know what specs the man has ,so just assuming he has a masterpiece as us is wrong. He could have 1 GB DDR1 for all we know. Also Kaspersky was announced to be the best AV ,but NOD is no less good (if you have the machine to work with it ,without bugging out from RAM loss , i.e. above 2 GB) . But these aren't to be pirated since they loose half their capabilities . Go for the Security Essential , its small ,and is optimized to work with almost no RAM ,gets every virus ,worm and etc. But for professional work , ESET and Kaspersky above all.

I assume that people on this site have at least a decent amount of RAM if they are browsing this site. Someone with DDR1 RAM should just give up on gaming entirely unless it's solitaire Kaspersky is good but it rings out a few too many false positives for my liking (it hates te armadillo packer). Nod32 has been my favorite for awhile, it only bogs down doing scans and in gaming mode it takes up less resources than a widget

Kaspersky is the best for sure.
However, I use AVG.

try use Microsoft Security Essentials its free and i think its doing his job never had a problem with that av!

McAffee and Malware Bytes.

McAffee fucking sucks, but hey, atleast my father pays it

Most people ITT are idiots.
AV-Comparatives - Independent Tests of Anti-Virus Software

Avast is one of the much better AV's out there, and I used to use it a lot. Its free too, but does bother you from time to time about upgrades and shit. Gaming mode disables mostly all of it. NOD doesnt slow your system down too much, but it does have a really tight grip on it. That tends to happen when you have an AV designed to be as thorough as NOD is. NOD is definitely one of the best 3 you can get, along side G-data and Kapersky. You are pretty much gonna have to pay for kapersky though, as I dont think I ever found a crack for it. Never tried G-data.

Avira is right along side of Avast, so it really comes down to preference.

Of course, if you have minimal competence in computers, (ie, not a fucking retard) MSE does more than enough to suit you just fine. Its fast, free, very lightweight, and has no premium only features. Combine it with Malwarebytes, and if you wind up getting a virus, that means you are an idiot. Rootkits are a different beast altogether and usually require more specialty tools like tdsskiller.